The American League Wild Card race is even tighter today after the Tampa Bay Rays knocked off the Texas Rangers in 12 innings last night, while the Baltimore Orioles moved within a game with a win over the Boston Red Sox, and the Kansas City Royals kept the Cleveland Indians a half game back of the WC with an exciting 7-2 win. Of course, that win also moved the Royals to 2.5 games back of the Rangers and Rays, as are the New York Yankees with their win over Toronto last night. Confusing? Yeah, the whole thing’s a big, stupid mess.

But the Royals are playing some inspired baseball right now, as Alcides Escobar provided us with a hell of a baserunning highlight last night in the bottom of the 5th inning, as he stole home while the Indians had Alex Gordon in a rundown.

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Cool play, right? Well, I have to admit that I’m posting this clip for a second, more important reason. Fast forward to about the :38 mark and let it play a few seconds… what the hell did that guy in the yellow shirt just do? Did he rub his friend’s arm and lick his hand? This has been baffling me for at least an hour this morning. What can I say, I’m productive.

Guys. Guyssss. I am from kc and my dad is a royals superfan. he wears royals shirts and hats to every city and baseball stadium in America and does not care about the grief he gets. He goes to roughly one gajillion royals games a season, even when the stadium is usually half empty and the boys in blue are bad as heck. (their slogan one year was “you gotta love these guys!). All other sports are just killing time until baseball season. All other baseball games are just killing time until the royals are playing. Come on, royals. Make my dad proud.

Make me proud too. Baseball is my favorite team sport and the royals are kings of my heart forever, but the only current player I know by name is Country Breakfast.

Damn I’m a Yankees fan and I want them to get in because I feel asleep during the final game the last time they won the World Series. But, I know I don’t deserve to see it as much as a fucking Royals fan.